Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Ten Commandments With a Christian Application, to Present Conditions
The outbreak of the Great War in the sum mer of 1914s seemed to many to set us abruptly in the midst of another age. We had come to think of ourselves as living in an earth which, with all its selfishness, was slowly but surely responding to the touch of the Spirit of Christ. Americans looked upon the huge armaments of Europe as absurd anachronisms; the growth of intelligence and the spread of Christian ideals had made a con?ict between the great powers unthinkable. We were startled and appalled to find ourselves suddenly thrust back into a day of pagan horrors. The folly of the strife bewildered us: whither had wisdom ?own? Its iniquity filled us with loathing: had righteousness been overthrown? We were driven to ask ourselves afresh what was wis dom and what was righteousness. The moral bases of life were re-examined; the primary ethical ideals of Christianity were scanned with a new interest. We were ready to sit at Christ's.
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